There are many ways of making money online amongst which flipping websites is probably one that gets more attention. And this business is growing larger by larger everyday as more and more people and trying their hands into it.
I know Building & Flipping Mini Niche Sites is something very common and the general opinion is that this method of generating revenue is now saturated. However, you’d actually be surprised at how wrong everyone’s assumption is.
The key in this case is efficiency and quick turnaround. You need to keep in mind at all times that your aim is to make as many mini niche sites as you can, in as little time, while maintaining the high quality and look.
In this post, I will be explaining some key points on which you should focus if you are looking to make money online flipping websites.
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Build Them Quick & Nice
Use wordpress. Yes, Blogs. That’s what we will be making. Register 5 domains to start with. Try to keep them all in a different niche. But make sure the niche is popular and in high demand(for example, during Christmas season you could have made a blog with Christmas dishes recipies, songs etc.). Of course, not too competitive; just enough to interest potential buyers. Get a new shared hosting account to get managed hosting services. Add those 5 domains. Install WordPress on all of them.
Configure & Customize
From this point, start working on them one by one. Individually, You don’t have to put up custom made themes for any of these blogs. A decent looking theme (If you have developer rights to a magazine theme, that would be awesome) will do. But remember to have a custom header and logo for each site. It helps differentiate your blog from the rest that use the same theme as yours.
For plugins, don’t go on experimenting with every new plugin. Install the necessary ones. Over the top of my head, I can recommend All in One SEO, Google Sitemap Generator, Comment Captcha plugin, Secure Login system, Google Adsense management, and Contact Us plugin.
Content and Pages.
Once you’re done with plugins and theme(s). Your next step is adding content. Remember the key – quick and simple. You don’t need 100,000 words of content in a ‘mini niche site‘. I’d say, 4-5 posts of 400-500 words each will be more than sufficent. And of course, pages. Do NOT forget to edit and change the About page. And make sure you add a ‘Contact Us’ page.
Additionally, try to include (if appropriate) these pages; ‘Privacy Policy’, ‘T.O.S’, ‘Sponsored Posts’, ‘Link Exchange’. They may not apply to every niche, but include them in the ones you feel they would do well in. They raise the overall ‘professional’ outlook.
SEO and Promotion
You installed the SEO plugin. Use that, along with pretty-permalinks and make sure your blog has search engine friendly URLs as well as appropriate titles, keywords, description, etc for each post and page. This is optional, but recommended.
Once you’re done with SEO, you’ll have a mini blog with content, a unique logo/header, a decent theme, and all the necessary plugins.
Now, you can either flip it, or promote it a bit, THEN flip it. Promotion would be simply adding all the posts to the top social bookmarking sites and submitting your blog(s) to a few high PR (but free) directories.
Flip It!
You can price it whatever you want. But an average price of $25 – $50 is optimum. If you promoted it, then mention that in your auction. It gives your blogs an advantage. You can try selling your niche sites made for flipping on websites like:
- Flippa.com
- Sitepoint Marketplace
- Digitalpoint Forums
Conclusion
The idea is basically to create as many mini blogs as you can and flip them for cheap. Since you’re selling them for relatively low price ($25 or $50 for a unique content mini site is quite cheap) you can be sure they’ll all sell quick. And because they’re mini blogs, they should be quicker to construct. If you are ready to jump start any business be sure to get involved in flipping mini niche sites.
So, Have you ever flipped a niche site? If yes, what do you say about website flipping business to make money online? For what price your niche site went for? What is your overall outlook of flipping websites for making money online? Let me know by commenting below.
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Good post. I think that we should try to increase the worth of our websites before selling them. I think that make 10 websites and give 3 months to each of them for promotion. As we know that Google PR is updated after every 3 months. Try to get some PR like PR2 or PR3 in three months. Also try to build as many backlinks as you can to increase the search engine rankings. After 3 months you should have about 100 visitors or so per day.
Now your websites will be of good worth like 300-500 USD. And selling all 10 websites will give you easy 1500 USD in 3 months.
I’m planning to do websites flipping soon, thanks for your tips but i always have difficult to choose the right niche, and also i would like to sell on Flippa but there are so munch sellers there, no sure if people will notice my site…
I love the concept of flipping website or niche mini sites,I think it could be very profitable!
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I liked your article on how to “Make Money Online By Building and Flipping Mini Niche Sites”. I have been interested in the making websites for the purpose of making some money out of it for sometime now. I really like Flippa.com for its simple and easy to use interface.
Before building and selling your websites, one must consider doing some market research to checl if their is a need for your website.
But in a quick time, the quality of the website is not high; I think it shouldn’t for the long term run
Especially since lots of the sites on Flippa and the other buy/sell websites are expensive, when you come in wanting only $25 – $50 for your site, it gets your listing a lot of visibility. And as long as you’re good at picking smart niches, someone should be willing to throw down cash for your site.
Nice tip Typhoon! I like the idea, but, to be honest, 50 dollars does sound a bit too low. I mean, that’s my hourly rate. I don’t think I can finish in less than 1 hour. Raising the price for a mini niche site is probably very risky right?
I recently tried flipping a site that I’d built and got to number 1 on Google for a pretty decent niche keyword, but the highest bid I got was $21. I think it was because the site hadn’t started to make some good money yet. I think Lee is right, you can sell new sites cheap, but still make a bit of money, however the real cash is in flipping sites that are showing a consistent monthly profit.
i have never read about flipping niche sites before, i am going to research this subject a little more and find out whats it about, great article and have bookmarked your site, thanks for sharing info
I hope I never have to make my money this way! $50 for one blog which you already paid hosting for and has to contain 5 articles… Do I miss something?
I am quite trickled that you said: making money by building and flipping “NICHE” sites. Some people would go about and flip any site – obviously nothing wrong with it – but I think concentrating on a specific niche is vital. Why? As you suggest – build websites – flip them, thus meaning that you will need to know a lot about your niche in order to succeed making money with it. It’s obviously going to be easier for you and people will have every trust in you.
Thanks for your recommendation!
I know people making good money in this niche but is also a lot of hassle. Unless you develop a system where you outsource all the work to different persons, it is a time consuming task. I’ve flipped a few websites myself but I never wanted to do this for a living because it takes a lot of time and efforts to develop websites and then sell if I can keep them for myself.
I’m wondering when people buy those mini sites, do they already have to be making some money?
Or is the main purpose of the buyer to expand them? I have few site that I would like to sell, but they aren’t making any money yet!
Do you advice to use a CMS like Wordpress or just html/css pages?
Would suggest you to always build a niche site on wordpress blog platform as that it what industry demands.
You will really have a higher chance of earning money through online if you have an effective strategy to use in flipping and building nice sites.
i didn’t knew that mini sites have a gold mine in them, thx a lot, i will try it out soon..
The idea is great. Creating a mini niche site is a good idea to earn money. A $5 dollar mark-up or so is reasonable nowadays. If you were able to create something that can be worth $50, it’s more than 50% earnings!
Its always fun making minisites because I learn many things about the niche that I research. And if I really like the niche and become more profitable than expected I will then develop it into a full website by adding more relevant contents.
the problem is that a mini niche site won’t bring some much income and for this to work, you must create dozens of mini niche websites, and if you’re trying to do it by yourself, you can’t compete with the affiliate marketing gurus that outsource or use automated tools… so you’re only chance is to hope that they won’t get into such small niches
Building and flipping websites is a great business for many affiliates. It involves work and know-how but it can be profitable, especially if you outsource some of the work involved in this process.
I am actually surprised the sites are only flipping for $25-$50. I was considering to flip some of my video sharing websites and was wondering what price to expect. If I do I will report back and let you know for how much. Awesome post that anyone could follow and actually make money!
Ya, that price is ok if the domain name is a general one, blog is having a free theme with some articles and proper configuration.
Obviously, the price will increase if you have got a keyword rich domain, good number of unique articles, some premium theme, added seo from your side etc.
The cool thing about site flipping is that once in a while you are going to create a gem that will make you a nice income now that will then equal two things, 1. you would be able to sell the flip for more than normal 2. you could keep the site and let it earn for you. Great post typhoon solid advice
Totally agree Typhoon. However, I think the “fast turn around” part is what most newbies and indeed some old timers would ave problem. Lots of people build the site, but when it comes to selling it they get stock with it for a long time. I guess it takes a bit experience and know how to learn where to go and how much to price it for and how to sell it.
But non the less, flipping sites is still a great way to make money online.
Hi Typhoon,
I thought you would get more for websites than $25-$50, how do you flip websites fast. I loke the whole look of your blog.
Regards Francis
$25-$50 is just the starting price that I think will be ok for a basic website. It’s other people who wil put more BID on those sites if they want and definitely you can get a high price.
Best way to flip website is through flippa.com
Hi tyhpoon
i absolutly agree with your article and the best think is takes a bit experience and know how to learn where to go and how much to price it for and how to sell it.
This method actually works well for a lot of people. I want to experiment later on in the future but I have to figure out a little more on how people transfer the site or blog to the buyer. Excellent write nonetheless.
Wow, this is a really great article. I was looking for how to flip websites but I only foud a lot of useless eBook sites about this. Thanks for sharing the information it helped me a lot in understanding the different processes of website flipping! Wull be back to read more of your articles shortly. =)
Flipping niche sites ! ! !
Never heard this term before but it sounds very interesting. Selling sites or blogs is not new in the world of Internet, many entrepreneur have done this before with their popular sites. But creating multiple blogs quickly solely for selling is very interesting. But I have doubt. Why someone buy a new blog having no readership base or have no good online presence.
thanks for exploring a new Idea to me, I will try to sell some blogs in future.
The only thing I can struggle with flipping sites is it actually worth your time? If you are flipping sites for $25-$50 how can you make money? You have to purchase a domain name, hosting (may already have some) and the time you spent doing it may well be worth more than the selling price you are wanting. On top of this you have to pay tax on the income. I am not sure of the US tax rates but here in NZ at 23-33% this venture would be a waste of time. $10 -$15 profit per site for your time? Great post thanks for the insight
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If you look at warrior forum, some people are selling websites at that cost. That price is actually ok for new website…I have recently purchased a niche site for $25 at warriorforum..So it all depends on where you live, how much expense you actually made etc..
You can surely flip the website for higher price if you are ready to explain to the possible customers that why they should pay that much for your website. If you have got good plus points to tell then definitely you can get a bigger bid.
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